A woman renewing her driver’s license at the County Clerk’s office was asked to state her occupation．She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself．

“What I mean is,” explained the recorder, “do you have a job, or are you just a …”

“Of course I have a job,” said Emily．“I’m a mother.”

“We don’t list ‘mother’ as an occupation… ‘housewife’ covers it,” said the recorder.

One day I found myself in the same situation．The clerk was obviously a career woman, confident and possessed of a high sounding title．“What is your occupation?” she asked．

The words simply popped out．“I’m a Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”

The clerk paused, ballpoint pen frozen in midair.

I repeated the title slowly, and then I stared with wonder as my statement was written in bold, black ink on the official questionnaire.

“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “Just what you do in this field?”

Coolly, without any trace of panic in my voice, I heard myself reply, “I have a continuing program of research (what mother doesn’t）, in the lab and in the field (normally I would have said indoors and out)．Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities (any mother care to disagree?), and I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it)．But the job is more challenging than most careers and rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just money.”

There was an increasing note of respect in the clerk’s voice as she completed the form, stood up, and showed me out．

As I drove into our driveway, buoyed up (依托) by my glamorous new career, I was greeted by my lab assistants---ages 13, 7, and 3.

Upstairs I could hear our new experimental model (a 6 month old baby), in the child-development program, testing out a new vocal pattern．

I felt proud! I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished and indispensable (不可缺少的) to mankind than “just another mother.”

Motherhood…What a great career! Especially when there’s a title on the door.

1.What can we infer from the conversation between the woman and the recorder at the beginning of the passage?

2.How did the female clerk feel at first when the author told her occupation?

3.Why did the woman clerk show more respect for the author?

4.What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
　　增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
　　删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
　　修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
　　注意：1.每处错误及其修改均限一词。
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I often dream of be a teacher. I dream of standing in the platform（讲台）in the classroom and I give
lessons to lovely boys or girls. I teach them, play with them, and watch them growing up. I am always
Young when I was staying with them. I know there is not easy to be teacher. Without enough knowledges , you can never teach well. Besides, you have to make friends with your pupils and take good care of him.
Though I am a student now, but I will work very hard to make my dream comes true.

某公司招聘英语秘书，包括下面所有内容, 字数100左右,

信的开头已给出（不计入总词数）参考词汇：秘书：secretary；操作 operate; 毕业graduate;

姓名 ：李华      性 别： 男           年龄 ：20岁

文化程度 ：高中   身体状况： 健 康   身 高： 1.78m

假如你是李华, 你在网上看到上面的招聘广告后, 用英文写一封求职信, 要求包括：     经 历： 曾在一家公司当过两年秘书

技 能： 1. 会操作电脑, 打字速度40个汉字/分钟

2. 擅长英语口语, 能用英语写作；曾在高中英语竞赛中获二等奖。

3. 会驾驶汽车

联系方式lihauwuhanhb@sina.com

Dear sir,

I’ve just learned from the internet that a secretary of English language ____________

____________________________________________________________________

If I am employed, I will work hard and try my best to do everything well.

Best wishes.

Sincerely yours,

Li Hua

Mr. Briggs got a job with an insurance company(保险公司) after he left school and went around visiting people in their homes to sell them life insurance. One day, after he had been working for the company for about a year, the insurance manager sent for him and said, “Mr. Briggs, I have been looking at your record as a salesman with our company, and there is one thing that surprises me about it. Why have you been selling insurance only to people over 95 years old, and why have you been giving them such generous（宽厚的）conditions? You’ll ruin our company if you go on like that.”

“Oh, no, sir,” answered Mr. Briggs at once, “Before I started work, I looked at the figures(数字) for deaths in this country during the past ten years, and I can tell you that few people die at the age of 95.”

1. Before he worked in an insurance company, what was Mr. Briggs?______.

2.The word “ruin” in the second paragraph means       .

3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?      

July 27st, 2010 was a typical English summer’s day – it rained for 24 hours! As usual, I rushed home from work at midday to check on the house. Nothing was amiss. By the time I left work at 5pm, however, the road into our village was flooded. Our house had never been flooded but, as I opened the front door, a wave of water greeted me. Thank God the kids weren’t with me, because the house was 5 feet deep in water. We lost everything downstairs.

At first we tried to push on through. We didn’t want to move the children out of home, so we camped upstairs. We put a sheet of plastic across the floor to protect us from the damp. But after three months, we felt very sick, so we moved to a wooden house in a park. The house was small, but at first we were all just delighted to be in a new place. Unfortunately, things took longer than expected and we were there for 10 months. The life there was inconvenient. What surprised me most was how much I missed being part of a community（社区）. We had lived in a friendly village with good neighbours, and I’d never thought how much I’d miss that.

Although our situation was very had, it’s difficult to feel too sorry for yourself when you look at what’s happening elsewhere. I watched a news report about floods in Northern India and thought, “We didn’t have a straw but（茅草房）that who swept away, and our house is still standing. We’re lucky.”

We moved back home in August. With December coming, there’s still reconstruction work to be done, so it’s difficult to prepare for Christmas, But I can’t wait-I’m going to throw a party for our friends in the village to say thanks for their support. This year, I won’t need any gifts-living away from home for months has made me realize how little we actually need or miss all our possessions. Although we are replacing things, there’s really no rush-we have our home back, and that’s the main thing.    

What does the underlined word “amiss” in the first paragraph mean?

      A．Wrong          B．Missing         C．Right     D．Difficult

Why does the author say that they were lucky in the third paragraph?

      A．Because they were able to move to a new place.

      B．Because many other places were flooded.

      C．Because their straw hut was not swept away.

      D．Because some others suffered even more.

It can be inferred from the text that the author          .

      A．was sick of staying upstairs

      B．cared much about her children

      C．could not stand living in a wooden house

      D．did not deal well with her family affairs during the flood

What does the author mainly want to express by telling her story?

      A．She valued human feelings more than before.

      B．She realized she almost didn’t need possessions.

      C．She found Christmas gifts no longer badly needed.

       D．She thought her own home was the most important.